I love how nobody actually thinks about how large 5000lb of fireworks is, and immediately skews towards “all those fireworks in that truck”.

They wouldn’t fit. It’s the “oh, and we found some homemade explosives” that went off and destroyed the container, because... y’know.... they actually fit in it.

*ponder*

Needs a third party company to develop that “killer app”... or device, in this case.

Wireless wireless. A 5G tower on a trailer with solar panels/battery/emergency generator, that links to it’s home network through Starlink.

At a minimum I could see FEMA and a number of state governments maintaining a fleet of…

A traffic enforcement officer, who’s driving something like a Prius with no chassis reinforcements. You don’t need a full-on ‘battle’ cruiser for ticket duty. If someone runs, you BOLO the heavies or just get ready to send a “you better ‘splain yourself in court or default a $1000 judgement” letter.

Someone arrested?…

I hope he’s braced the strut towers, they aren’t intended to take any weight from the suspension. Original fox suspension uses an inboard ‘divorced’ spring so the strut is just a tube, that hat and the upper fender structure is only intended to take the side loads for locating the strut top (maintaining alignment).

Sign…

Yeah, I was thinking all this myself.... are there even $3500 of suspension components in a GMT2500 chassis?

I found myself well over a quart low on a dodge SOHC 2.2 once and was caught out without extra motor oil. It got half a quart of mower non-detergent 30w and a half a quart of air compressor oil (which I learned later was basically the same as the mower oil), and a trip up the road for a fresh case of the right stuff.

T…

You realize that with all the added fresh oil and *brand new* detergent loads, that you basically flushed the oil system and sent the used flush in for testing?

If the cam lobes start to wipe they’ll also start to clatter. Most of the time the lifter will fail to rotate after the process starts, and a mag mount end…

Malaise era, 1973-1976. Styling cues from the ‘69-70 era were just evolving into another complete language when the US Gov’t suddenly mandates 5mph bumpers on everything, at which point car designers just kind of froze things, collectively said “F*ck it” and slapped on huge bar bumpers to nearly everything.

It took…

“An optimal filled hem.
Excluding air prevents corrosion.”

That crack is all you need to know; the door skin is either an incorrect alloy or has been embrittled by contamination or incorrect heat treatment after rolling.

It’s too hard. It won’t maintain pressure in a rolled seam (in fact it’s likely cracked on the apex, under the paint), it cracks where the stamping press…

Only if the torquing was done at the factory. The recall is worded in such a way that it points to the hub extenders already being on a complete axle assembly delivered from a supplier.

To be fair, the OG Maverick *is* actually pretty small. The ‘70-72 coupe is almost exactly the size of a 2021 Toyota Corolla.

You can set up a frame like that because you’re not ignoring the inertial or gravitational component, it’s just on the other side of the equation. We’re also talking about a steady state system where gravity has already been nullified... the delta descent velocity isn’t increasing or decreasing, drag forces have…

The world would be better off if certain people in it just quietly disappeared.

I wouldn’t be so quick to admit I wasn’t capable of thinking in relative frames.

Set the aircraft as the reference. When gravity acts upon it, what happens as relative to a fixed reference on the aircraft? Air goes up. Thanks to aerodynamics that air is utilized to provide forward motion, but with the glider as a…

So big the quarter panel small-format stickers are IN the numbers.

If you’re falling, you’re seeing a wind relative to yourself.
What does gravity cause for a glider? A relative updraft.

“One thing I know for a fact is that wind can’t ever push you faster than it is going. I mean, you can tack a sailboat and technically go faster than your tailwind”

MUCH faster. Let’s take a look at a gliding aircraft and then turn the situation sideways. A given aircraft has a 70mph optimal glide speed and can go…

In likely minutes before someone patents a fold-up bed rack with over-cab support that solves everyone’s plywood and ladder questions for $499......

Perhaps, but that demo is apparently the pasty moneyed white youth of the region...  are you assuming only black folk want to squat cars?